After protesters on Wednesday carried out blockades due to the lack of medicines for children with cancer, the Health Institute for Welfare (Insabi) guaranteed the supply of medicines, including those used for cancer treatments.
Through a communique, he said that the agencies that make up the health sector are working in a coordinated manner in the redesign of the supply of medicines for the entire population of the country.
He explained that a strategy is being implemented that includes the signing of agreements with international organizations to purchase medicines and supplies such as the one signed with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in the Consolidated Purchase 2021.
He indicated that UNOPS has delivered more than 40 million units of medicines and healing materials, corresponding to the specialties of pulmonology, oncology, psychiatry, gynecology, cardiology and nephrology.
These medicines were distributed in the IMSS, the ISSSTE, the Ministry of National Defense, the Secretariat of the Navy and the Coordinating Commission of the National Institutes of Health and High Specialty Hospitals, CCINSHAE.
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With regard to the parents of children with cancer who have spoken out, he said that Insabi officials have attended to them on several occasions and gave them the information that verifies the progress in the delivery of cancer drugs.
And that on Monday, June 28, they were informed that more than 30 thousand pieces of oncological drugs were distributed nationwide, including Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate, Gemcitabine, Etoposide, Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Cisplatin.
Insabi said that a firm decision was taken to open up the participation of bidders at the international level in order to promote the supply and quality of medicines. With this, he said, monopolistic practices will be banished.
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The drug supply today consists of more than 100 suppliers and in the past was concentrated in only 10 participants, and contracts were signed with manufacturers in India, China, South Korea, Italy, Argentina, Cuba, France, Japan, England, Canada, among others.
On Thursday, a group of people blocked Circuito Interior at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) heading north, protesting the lack of medicines for children with cancer.
The general director of Health Services Management of the Institute of Health and Welfare (INSABI), Adalberto Santaella, and the person in charge of Abasto, María Teresa Lozada, arrived at the site, who assured that there is no shortage, since 4 thousand medicines from Korea arrived in the country, which are in customs.
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